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Table 5.2 Rating of Cases Using Sharma’s (2010) Model of Crowdsourcing Critical Success Factors (continued) Human capital (available vs. needed)
Infrastructure (available vs. needed)
Vision (shared within the crowd)
Huduma in Kenya
2
1 (long-term oriented, with government as key partner)
2
Avaaz
1
1
1
Project
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txtEagle (now: JANA)
3 (weaker infrastructure in partner countries) 2
3 (externally driven)
2
1 (entrepreneur driven)
2
Financial capital (needs)
Linkages and trust
3 (government, 3 (government donors, buy-in, but low crowd) trust because of delays in launching the platform) 1 (very high 3 (relatively number of high trust in supporters; initiators, but crowdfunddue to scale; ing) anonymous, less collaboration within the crowd yet) 3 (high 3 (UN and ITC long-term support, but funding unclear if local needs; actors and donorclients involved sponsored) in setup) 3 (high start2 (initiative up, scale-up supported by needs; large telecoms) business funded)
External environment 2 (government buy-in)
2 (international advocacy rather than relationship with fragile state governments)
Motivation Score (and (crowd Criteria of ranking alignment with governance (of Process of among long-term goals) the system) crowdsourcing cases) 5 (platform not yet operational beyond pilot)
5 (platform not yet operational beyond pilot)
2 (high altruistic 1 (transparent, motivation simple rules from develfor issue oped counselection tries, but less and parinterest from ticipation, developingcrowdfundcountry ing) citizens) 3 (potential to 4 (unclear long- 5 (no live make markets term business view of the more efficient, driver) platform) but unclear business driver) 2 (local 2 (business 3 (business government model: crowd driven, but support, receives no crowd serving real micropayparticipademand) ments) tion in design)
5 (platform not yet operational beyond pilot)
28 (7)
1 (see Criteria of governance)
13 (1)
5 (no information on data collection process found online) 2 (see entry under Motivation)
31 (9)
Note: 1 = very good; 5 = nonexistent or very bad. CRMA = Crisis and Recovery Mapping and Analysis; GV10 = Guinée Vote 2010 Témoin; ITC = International Trade Centre; NGOs = nongovermental organizations; SBTF = Standby Task Force; UN = United Nations.
19 (4)